Another X-Posting from PorschePhiles

Bill_Histed.ASM@notes.compuserve.com coughed up:
> From porschephiles-request@tta.com  Mon Jun 26 19:06:49 1995
> Date: 26 Jun 95 21:39:06 EDT
> From: <Bill_Histed.ASM@notes.compuserve.com>
> To: <porschephiles@tta.com>
> Cc: <ASM#l#u#r#LN1#l#a#r#ASM@notes.compuserve.com>
> Subject: Re:  Fw: waaay stupid tricks
> Message-ID: <950627013906_702420.204300_BHD37-55@CompuServe.COM>
> 
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>   Author:   INTERNET:aek @ netcom.com@CISHUB
>   Received: 05/22/95 08:34:00 PM
>   Subject:   Fw: waaay stupid tricks
> 
>   I just got this from a friend ... enjoy!
> 
> 
> 
> 
>   >Stupid Human Trick ...
>   >
>   >OUCH!  don't try this one at home, now, kiddies!
>   >
>   >"Darwin award" Nominee: You all know about the Darwin awards -- it's
>   >an annual honor given to the person who did the gene pool the biggest
>   >service by killing themselves in the most extraordinarily stupid way.
>   >Last year's winner was the fellow who was killed by a Coke (tm)
>   >machine, which toppled over on top of him as he was attempting to tip
>   >a free soda out of it.
>   >
>   >And the nominee is:
>   >
>   >The Arizona (U.S.) Highway Patrol came upon a pile of smoldering metal
>   >imbedded into the side of a cliff rising above the road, at the apex
>   >of a curve.
>   >
>   >The wreckage resembled the site of an airplane crash, but it was a
>   >car.  The type of car was unidentifiable at the scene.  The boys in
>   >the lab finally figured out what it was, and what had happened.
>   >
>   >It seems that a guy had somehow got hold of a JATO unit, (Jet Assisted
>   >Take Off, actually a solid-fuel rocket) that is used to give heavy
>   >military transport planes an extra `push' for taking off from short
>   >airfields.  He had driven his Chevy Impala out into the desert, and
>   >found a long, straight stretch of road.  Then he attached the JATO
>   >unit to his car, jumped in, got up some speed, and fired off the
>   >JATO!!  Best as they could determine, he was doing somewhere between
>   >250 and 300 mph (350-420kph) when he came to that curve....  The
>   >brakes were completely burned away, apparently from trying to slow the
>   >car.
>   >
>   >(NOTE: Solid-fuel rockets don't have an 'off'... once started, they
>   >burn at full thrust 'till the fuel is all gone.)
>   >
>   >
> 
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> 

Thom
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